The Senate’s bipartisan immigration deal is falling apart because the president wants it to. By late Wednesday, a coalition of 17 senators—eight Republicans, eight Democrats, and one independent—reached consensus on a bill that would create a path to citizenship for 1.8 million undocumented immigrants who came to the…

In news that has surely prompted one of the more uncomfortable family discussions in modern electoral politics, CNN reported Monday that the parents of Kevin Nicholson, a Republican running to replace Democratic Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin, maxed out on the amount of money they could legally donate to a…

Despite having publicly announced just four and a half months ago that he’d retire at the end of his term—or, as he put it, return to the life of a “citizen legislator”—Bob Corker, the Senate Republican from Tennessee, is reportedly considering a bid for reelection.

Confidential documents filed with the Senate Banking Committee suggest that Equifax could have lost considerably more personal information about over 145 million Americans to hackers than it’s publicly let on, CNN Money reported.

Despite New York Senator Chuck Schumer’s claim that the Senate has “yet to reach a path forward” on a bipartisan bill to end the government shutdown that somehow satisfies both the pro- and anti-immigration blocs of the Senate, Politico reports that the Senate will vote at noon on Monday “on a bill to reopen the…

The New York Timesreports that a group of Senate Democrats is helping the Republican effort to roll back the Dodd-Frank bank regulations signed by President Obama in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The new proposal would raise the threshold for extra regulatory scrutiny from $50 billion in assets to $250…

Three days from the one-year anniversary on which Barack Obama made the surprise decision to commute her 35-year prison sentence, Chelsea Manning has confirmed that she is running for senator. She will be running as a Democrat in Maryland against 74-year-old career politician Ben Cardin.

This week, Senators Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., went to the White House to discuss immigration policy with President Donald Trump. When they arrived, they were surprised to see hardline anti-immigration Congress members Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., also in attendance.…

J.D. Vance—whose book Hillbilly Elegy was lauded as the best Trump Voter Explainer™ by liberals and conservatives alike during the 2016 election, is reportedly being urged by Mitch McConnell to jump into the Ohio Senate race.

After a long “will he or won’t he” period, Utah senator and very old man Orrin Hatch finally announced on Tuesday that he will retire at the end of his term. At 83 years old, Hatch is the longest serving Senate Republican, and his tenure will span seven terms over four decades.

The Washington Postrecently explained that, based on the number of octogenarians currently serving, this is the oldest U.S. Senate ever. It may feel like the Senate has always been full of wizened elders, but this is actually a very recent development:

On Tuesday, Politico reported that the Office of Compliance—the agency that handles sexual harassment complaints in Congress—had turned down Senator Tim Kaine’s request for the release of sexual harassment data pertaining to the Senate, which he planned to make public.

Here’s a funny old thing: Doug Jones’ victory last night means there will be one fewer Republican in the Senate, which could—should—mean one less vote for the massive handout to donors that is the GOP tax bill. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Luther Strange, the interim senator currently occupying the…

When weighing the appropriate response to accusations of impropriety, criminality, or other wrongdoing by members of Congress, it is nearly impossible to avoid grubby, instrumentalist politics, even if one imagines one is operating purely on principle or ethics. To wit: Most of the Democrats, liberals, and leftists…

After our president started Tuesday out by suggesting New York Senator Kirstin Gillibrand “would do anything” for campaign donations—which was widely read as a gross and harassing statement—her colleague Elizabeth Warren tried to come to Gillibrand’s defense but didn’t quite stick the landing.